clinical pharmacist Bournemouth, England
Job description
Are you searching for the next step in your pharmacy career? Are you highly motivated and passionate about patient and medication safety?
We’re looking for a senior pharmacist with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join #TeamUHD in an exciting management role.
You’ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership and management skills with varied training, such as leading Datix review investigations, Root Cause Analysis and more. Your success is our success and we’ll support you in all your training and development endeavours.
Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you’ll help ensure continuous process review and patient safety improvement.
We offer generous relocation support to candidates outside our area to help the transition. Please get in touch if you have any further questions.
For a more detailed overview of the role and person specification please see the supporting documents.
Your responsibilities will be to:
- Deputise for the Pharmacy Risk and Governance Manager/Medicines Safety Officer, and work closely with the Lead Pharmacy Risk and Governance Technician, the Medicines Management Nurse Specialist and Cold Chain Auditors to deliver on department, Trust and national medicines safety strategies and directives.
- Provide expert advice on medication safety and governance issues, working with other healthcare professionals to raise awareness of medicines related incidents and reduce recurrence by implementing actions to improve patient safety.
- Be a champion and advocate for medication safety, supporting both Pharmacy and the wider Trust.
- Develop and deliver specialist medication risk and governance training, to pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.
- Provide clinical expertise when investigating and advising on medication related incidents reported via the Datix web database.
- Undertake clinical pharmacist duties on wards and within the dispensary, including participation in the weekend and bank holiday rota.
Interview Date: TBC
AsUniversity Hospitals Dorsetwe are a three site acute Trust (newly formed by a recent merger) with ‘University Hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Network Group (LGBTQ+), European (EU), ProAbility Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
